It was successful, so efforts spread elsewhere. In the Lone Star State, boll weevil traps with pheromones are set up around fields and along roadsides. When the beetles are seen in the traps or on ...

It was successful, so efforts spread elsewhere. In the Lone Star State, boll weevil traps with pheromones are set up around fields and along roadsides. When the beetles are seen in the traps or on ...

The first breakthrough was the discovery of boll weevil pheromones, which were used to lure and trap the pests. Scientists also found out that boll weevil development and reproduction slowed ...

The researchers set up traps along roads in Texas to compare the standard and experimental lures for attracting boll weevils. They checked the traps once a week from mid-May to mid-June ...

Oct. 22—HARLINGEN — Drive through the Valley, and you can spot them everywhere, the lime green bottles used to trap cotton growers' biggest nemesis, the boll weevil.

The traps will be monitored every four weeks rather than every three weeks and will be removed when no food is available for boll weevils in the field. “The new protocol will slightly reduce the ...

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The pheromones lured boll weevils into traps where they could be sprayed with pesticides. That combination drove a 99 percent success rate. Today, the weevil has been eradicated from 98 percent of ...

Grantland and Hood reassured all the eradication program works. Then, they furnished me with boll weevils caught in cotton traps in Wilson County for comparison to the weevils found locally.

Farmers and scientists threw everything they could at the boll weevil. They came up with an artificial mating scent that drew the insect to small green traps all around the fields filled with ...

The boll weevil nearly wiped out North Carolina’s ... Last year, the foundation put out 7,125 traps, each one monitoring about 57 acres. There were 403,388 acres of cotton planted in the state ...